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Yale Yesterdays

Clarence Deming

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...College in 1836 he took the chair after a year of study in Paris. But the same year, 1837, with its financial stress, left the college in hardship, unable to pay its instructors and, in Loomis' written words, "without enough money in the treasury to take me out of the state." Salaries had for a time to be paid in farm produce. Yet during his seven years at Western Reserve one obtains glimpses of the unique "Loom" of after years at Yale. He built a campus fence a third of a mile long on which he spent many hours to establish an exact north and south line. More apocryphal is a tale how a mighty cyclone passed over the college and drove a dead hen into a sandbank an indefinite number of feet; and how Loomis, with a dead chicken fired from a field-piece, repeated nature's experiment to determine accurately the velocity of the cyclonic blast. Professor Loomis next (1844) began a service of sixteen years in the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the University of New York--a service marked by the beginnings of the series of text-books on mathematics and astronomy. First and last, it is said, six hundred thousand of them were sold. They were the major sources of the estate which finally came to Yale. In 1860 Yale called him to succeed Professor Olmsted and with the opening of his Yale professorship memory flies back to the personal Loomis whom the mediaeval Yale undergraduate knew. It was a singular figure even viewed visually and objectively, marked by those same mathematical exactitudes that ran through his text-books. His frame was slight and moved along the New Haven streets and Campus walks with an invariable slow gait. The college boys used to contend that if the lengths of his stride from morn to nightfall could be measured t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Yale Yesterdays. To get started finding Yale Yesterdays, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 254

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Richard West

Release: 1984

ISBN: 084924224X

Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...College in 1836 he took the chair after a year of study in Paris. But the same year, 1837, with its financial stress, left the college in hardship, unable to pay its instructors and, in Loomis' written words, "without enough money in the treasury to take me out of the state." Salaries had for a time to be paid in farm produce. Yet during his seven years at Western Reserve one obtains glimpses of the unique "Loom" of after years at Yale. He built a campus fence a third of a mile long on which he spent many hours to establish an exact north and south line. More apocryphal is a tale how a mighty cyclone passed over the college and drove a dead hen into a sandbank an indefinite number of feet; and how Loomis, with a dead chicken fired from a field-piece, repeated nature's experiment to determine accurately the velocity of the cyclonic blast. Professor Loomis next (1844) began a service of sixteen years in the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the University of New York--a service marked by the beginnings of the series of text-books on mathematics and astronomy. First and last, it is said, six hundred thousand of them were sold. They were the major sources of the estate which finally came to Yale. In 1860 Yale called him to succeed Professor Olmsted and with the opening of his Yale professorship memory flies back to the personal Loomis whom the mediaeval Yale undergraduate knew. It was a singular figure even viewed visually and objectively, marked by those same mathematical exactitudes that ran through his text-books. His frame was slight and moved along the New Haven streets and Campus walks with an invariable slow gait. The college boys used to contend that if the lengths of his stride from morn to nightfall could be measured t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Yale Yesterdays. To get started finding Yale Yesterdays, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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